Mateo Castro
PHD Student at University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMateo Castro is a PhD student in Machine Learning and Robotics at the University of Washington with eight years of hands-on research and engineering experience spanning robotics, reinforcement learning, and embedded electrical systems. He holds an MS in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Tufts, and has contributed to robotics labs and internships at CMU, NUS, and industry partners, bridging algorithmic research with real-world robot hardware. His work centers on robot learning and reinforcement learning, combining principled ML methods with practical systems integration. Based in Seattle, he maintains a public portfolio at www.mateoguaman.com that highlights both research projects and code, reflecting a habit of shipping reproducible experiments beyond academia.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Tufts UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Robotics, Master of Science - MS, Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (25)
robotics9
simulation9
janky9
robot9
nvidia9
ros8
gpu7
reinforcement-learning7
nlp6
q-learning6
language-modeling6
machine-learning6
datasets6
deep-learning5
gymnasium5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mateoguaman/mateoguaman.github.io
Jul 2017 - May 2023
Contributions:73 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
castacks/learned_cost_map
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:173 commits, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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